Seattle software development company ForwardCenter has relaunched operations under a new name, iNetOffice Inc. iNetOffice's keystone product is iNetWord, a powerful new Ajax-based browser-based online editor.

Dave Crane and Eric Pascarello with Darren James have authored Ajax in Action, published by Manning. A statement by the publishers has this to say about the book - 'With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as 'Ajax,' you can give them a better experience. Once users have experience...

TIBCO has announced that BANORTE and Toyota Services of Mexico have both selected TIBCO's AJAX-based business process management (BPM) platform 'TIBCO Staffware Process Suite' as the standard throughout their respective organizations to facilitate better communication and collaboratio...

Prominent computer industry vendors and Internet-based businesses are trying to make it easier for an open-source community to form and popularize Ajax. Ajax is a fast-growing open client technology that businesses are incorporating into their external and internal Web sites to simplif...

In an exclusive SYS-CON.TV interview just recorded in Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA, Scott Guthrie - Co-Creator of ASP.NET - talks with SYS-CON Group Publisher & Editorial Director about Atlas, the new version of ASP.NET that Guthrie, who is General Manager of Microsoft's Cli...

Despite its success in the mid-tier, Linux has not been widely adopted on enterprise desktops - primarily because there is currently very little in the way of standards-based support for developing platform-neutral, enterprise-class GUI applications for Linux. Enterprises will not unde...

Oracle was among the truly big technology companies announced as original supporters of the Open AJAX initiative. Yet this is a grassroots effort, involving company's of many sizes, each making their own unique contributions to the cause, explains Ted Farrell in an exclusive interview.

Zimbra was recently named as one of the original members of the Open AJAX coalition that is being headed by IBM. One of the ideas behind this group of companies is that many of them will bring their own particular flavor or 'personality' to the show. Zimbra President and CTO outlines, ...

Google is breathing down Microsoft's neck again. It has beta-launched Google Page Creator, which it describes as 'a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.' Bye bye Microsoft FrontPage!

JackBe, a leading provider of AJAX solutions that enable enterprises to rapidly improve the usability of their Web applications, has announced that Robert Vonderhaar has joined its executive team as vice president of marketing. A 25-year enterprise software industry veteran, Vonderhaar...

American Coders has announced a new website (www.generaldecision.com) with an easy to use interface to help with decision making. The site uses the time-tested algorithm of comparing multiple criteria and choices. Using AJAX technology, the web page provides the user with 5 steps to co...

Model N, the pioneer in Revenue Management solutions for the life science industry, has announced the release of its next generation Revenue Management Suite, built on the AJAX industry standard. This major new release offers several industry innovations, including breakthrough ease of...

Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-...

Novell is one of the major contributers to the new Open AJAX initiative. But that's hardly all that's going on at the company these days. In this exclusive interview, Novell's Charlie Ungashick discusses how the company fits into the Open AJAX coalition, particularly as it relates to N...

I was reading the coverage of MashupCamp on Tech.Memeorandum today and I came across Adam Greene's coverage of one of the sessions. He was complaining a bit about the cognitive dissonance he was encountering trying to comprehend the data flows in Edgeio, Michael Arrington's prominently...

How does a company like Zapatec compete with the major companies who are jumping onto the AJAX bandwagon? Learn from company Founder and President Dror Matalon what his company brings to the parade in this exclusive interview.

'Real-World AJAX' faculty added two pioneers to its roster; Jouk Pleiter, co-founder and CEO of Backbase, and Kevin Hakman, co-founder of Tibco's General Interface. Two of the leading AJAX technology leaders will teach both in New York on March 13 and San Jose on April 24.

'Real-World AJAX' Seminar added two more rock stars to its faculty, Adam Bosworth, Google's vice president of engineering and Paul Rademacher, the creator of HouseingMaps.com. Bosworth and Rademacher will both be part of the 'Real-World AJAX' San Jose faculty, which will take place on ...

Browser-based applications are widely used and we like the fact that we can access them from anywhere. But from the users' perspective, the productivity level of Web applications still doesn't approximate the productivity of desktop programs. The good news is the gap is closing: the ac...

It's been one year since Jesse James Garret wrote the first article on Ajax, which gave a name to the existing technology and helped it to boom and reach magnitudes and a buzz never imagined by anyone before. It's still taking off, with new magazines, seminars, and articles everywhere.

Recently, a number of Web sites have begun to raise some eyebrows within the developer community. What's unique about these sites is that they behave more like a desktop application than a Web application. As you interact with them, they quickly display an endless amount of information...

The subject of Web 2.0 has become profoundly important over the last year. Web 2.0 describes the next generation of the Web as an application platform where most of a user's software experience resides. The subject is somewhat controversial, but it's becoming ever more apparent as the ...

Marc Hedlund set the blogosphere on fire today with a terrific new article on O'Reilly Radar that discusses the real things happening out there in the Web 2.0 development wild. What I find so fascinating about the things we keep seeing is that ground truth seems genuinely different tha...

The product space of online Ajax desktops has been growing rapidly over the last year and open-platform Pageflakes is one of the newest and most capable entrants. Other Ajax desktop products likes Netvibes and Microsoft?s Live.com have been available for a while, and Pageflakes seems ...

With the version 3.1 Professional Edition, TIBCO General Interface is being made available to build and test AJAX-enabled applications for free. Now, developers looking to build AJAX-based applications can leverage the power of TIBCO General Interface Professional Edition to instantly ...

'Led by The Father of 'AJAX' himself, the charismatic Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, 'Real-World AJAX' has one overriding organizing principle: its aim is to make sure that delegates fortunate enough to secure themselves a place - before all seats are sold out - will leave the s...

2006 is turning into quite the year for the convergence of software architecture. And not in a way that's boring or obscure in the least. If fact, what's so compelling is that these changes turn out to be relevant to all of us in our daily lives. As Web 2.0 tenets emphasize, a big part...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with key people from two Ajax providers, TIBCO General Interface's Kevin Hakman and Zapatec Ajax Suite's Dror Matalan. Each company has two quite different approaches to designing Ajax-enabled software and it highlighted an increasingly clear div...

Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford's character) is a top executive who has built his career on designing top anti-theft computer systems in the industry. His job provides his family a comfortable life. But there's a vulnerability in Jack's system that he has not...

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield, VP of strategy & techn...

Microsoft released the latest beta of IE7 as a public beta this week. I resisted the urge to download the previous beta's deciding to wait until it was legal and all of the initial complaints and niggles had been ironed out. Installation was painless, with the only awkward moment being...

One of the questions I get asked fairly frequently is how people can leverage Web 2.0 techniques in their applications and infrastructure today. Now that it's getting more well known, more people seem to be actively interested in making immediate, practical use of Web 2.0 ideas. For ex...

Exadel, Inc. announced AJAX support through its new version of Exadel Studio 3.5. Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or AJAX, is a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications, that is gaining widespread attention from the development community. Because AJAX applic...

Last week, Microsoft marshaled its vast resources and influence to launch a full-blown think tank and incubator for the disruptive and increasingly pervasive technologies and products of the Web 2.0 age: it's called Live Labs. Dion Hinchcliffe was fortunate to be in invited attendance ...

Joe Danziger has launched a new blog dedicated to AJAX use with ColdFusion. Joe is the author of a recent CFDJ article on building a ColdFusion + AJAX shopping cart. Welcome Joe, we look forward to your postings.

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